The vital vegetables project with a focus towards building the enabling technologies and capabilities required for identifying and analysing functional vegetable products. The project has also identified and studied several other high phytonutrient vegetable crops including a range of lettuces, brassicas and Asian vegetables.

This project has been funded by Hort Innovation, using the research and development levies listed below and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower-owned, not-for-profit research and development corporation for Australian horticulture.

• Vegetable Fund